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Korea Post’s savings arm has been chosen as the preferred buyer of the headquarters building of France’s Natixis in Paris, in a deal worth 230 billion...

The Teachers’ Pension of South Korea will commit $100 million to a North America-focused, blind mezzanine fund to be launched by U.S.-based Crescent C...

Blackstone, the world’s largest real estate investment firm, has attracted 1 trillion won ($900 million) from South Korean institutional investors for...

TPG named Sanghoon Lee, an ex-Morgan Stanley executive and elder son of a former Samsung Electronics vice chairman and CEO, as the head of its South K...

The Carlyle Group has recently embarked on due diligence of South Korea’s Logen Co. Ltd. for a possible acquisition, following another private equity ...

Korea Post’s savings unit is seeking three global real estate fund managers to make joint investments in first mortgages of U.S. commercial assets for...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will invest €40 million in Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 (MEIF5) that is aiming to rai...

Korea Post’s savings unit announced a request for proposal on August 17 to select three asset management houses that will be in charge of setting up s...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has selected Daishin Asset Management and Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management as general pa...

South Korean pension and savings funds are piling into short-term notes backed by time deposits at Chinese banks, lured by higher deposit rates from C...

South Korea’s public pension funds, including the National Pension Service (NPS) and pension schemes for government officials and military personnel, ...

The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid is looking for stock management firms to invest a total of about 100 billion won ($88 million) and pick up to four fund...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) and the Teachers’ Pension have brought a joint action against Daewoo Shipbuilding for $19 mill...

Three to four South Korean institutions, including asset management firm Hyundai Investments, have put on hold a planned joint purchase of an office b...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) posted a notification on July 6 that it would select two global private debt fund managers f...

Private debt products such as senior secured loans, collateralized loan obligation and mezzanine debt in the U.S. and European markets have become one...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) posted a notification on July 1 to invite bids for a 100 billion won ($87 million) mandate f...

Korea Post has appointed a long-serving senior government official as the new head of its insurance asset investments who will also take a quasi-chief...

The Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) of South Korea issued requests for proposals on July 1 for 100 billion won ($87 million) mandates that it wou...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS), managing $6 billion of assets, will make an additional investment of about 430 billion won ...

South Korea’s private equity firm SkyLake Investment, which won an about $220 million mandate from the National Pension Service (NPS) this week, has b...

South Korea’s two local private equity firms, VIG Partners and SkyLake Investment, received 250 billion won ($216 million) mandates from the National ...

South Korea’s key savings funds have decided to put on hold investments in Europe shortly after the Brexit vote on the prospect of a further decline i...

CJ Group has jumped into a bidding war to acquire McDonald's Korea. According to investment banking sources on June 28, CJ Group had submitted a lette...

A savings fund in South Korea is studying raising its exposure to European equities, stocks and infrastructure assets after the Brexit decision, where...

Unlike the U.S. Fed’s quantitative easing program that had boosted U.S. equity markets for more than six years from 2009, the Bank of Korea’s five pol...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has awarded $50 million mandates each to Blackstone and Pomona Capital for global secondary ...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has replaced the head of its investment review committee recently with the Chief Investment Officer Do...

The Police Mutual Aid Association of South Korea will post a public notice of a request for proposals this week to commit 100 billion won ($87 million...

South Korean insurance companies have been raising investments in overseas investments by more than 50% since the start of this year and also consider...